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Kroghville, Wisconsin

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lake Mills town. It lies in ZIP code area 53594. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Kroghville within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

114 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Kroghville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kroghville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
L. Kelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cambridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mankowski QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kroghville in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindKroghville$6,000Four 2 story tall trees uprooted. The trees damaged a boat, trailer, and a chimney after falling on them.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lake Ripley4.0 miles16
Cambridge4.0 miles23
Breezy Knoll4.3 miles16
Sylvan Mounds4.6 miles18
Lake Mills5.3 miles16
Oakland6.5 miles18
Hoopers Mill7.1 miles16
Aztalan7.8 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KroghvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6438764The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1577685. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.